brulé

¹

Or bru·lée

[broo-ley, broo-lee, bry-ley]

noun

plural

brulés 

1. (in the Pacific Northwest) an area of forest destroyed by fire.

2. Canadian.,  land covered with rocks or scrub growth.

Brulé

²

[broo-ley]

noun

plural

Brulés ,

plural

Brulé .

1. a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.

Brule

/ bruːˈleɪ /

noun

1. (sometimes not capital) short for bois-brûlé

Word History and Origins

Origin of brulé¹

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; from French: literally, “burnt,” past participle of brûler; broil ¹

Example Sentences

“IT HAS THE spirit of a loft,” says the interior designer Martin Brûlé, surveying the apartment that inhabits an entire floor of the Sherry-Netherland, the 38-story Jazz Age Fifth Avenue co-op and hotel overlooking Central Park at 59th Street.

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The Montreal-born Brûlé, 38, was commissioned to do the apartment in 2021, a few years after he opened his namesake New York office, by a Latin American-born client with a family of five who works in a rarefied corner of the international jewelry business.

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Brûlé has since transformed the 11,000 square feet, which once housed the hotel’s barbershop, gym and several offices, into a wildly imaginative and distinctively uptown version of open-plan living.

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For Brûlé, who is known for subdued tones and disciplined geometries, invoking a TriBeCa loft within an iconic neo-Gothic edifice and outfitting it in a fever dream of color, texture and opulent fabrics was a change of direction.

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“I was open to do anything in the world,” Brûlé says.

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